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PATENTEBAUG. 11. J. O. MORRiS.

REGISTER.

APPLXGATK ON FILED NOV. 19, 1906.

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PATENYEED AUG 11, 1908. J. 0. MORRIS.

REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.19, 1906.

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liili RRQ wikmeaasa PAIENTED AUG: 11, M08.

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APPLICATION FILED EOV. 19, 1906.

No. 895,879. PATBNTED AUG. 11 1902.. J. 0. MORRIS.

' REGISTER. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 19,19C6.

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PATENTED AUG. 11, 1908.

J. O. MORRIS. REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.19, 1906.

6 SHEETSSHEET G EHW H HM HM n To all when). it may concern:

JOHN O. MORRIS, OF

.WAsHiNeToN, DISTRICTOF ootUMBIii, Assie-Noii T0 MORRIS SPECIALT-Y'MANUFACTURING COMPANY.

REGISTER.

Be it known that I, J OHN 0. Melanie, a citizen of the United States, residing at Washington, District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Registers, of-which the following'is a specification.

My invention relates to fare registers. It is the object of my invention to prevent fraud onthe art of conductors of street'raiL. ,way cars or t e like, and with this object in view ,I have provided an attachment of special construction for use with fare register by which theattention of passengers and particularly the person who has just paid is fare wi 1 be attracted to the fare-register so that the conductor will be deterred from omitting the ringing up of a fare with the intention of appropriating the same to his own use.

My attachment includes means whereby after acertain interval, or more properly speaking, after acertain number of fares have been rung (up, a sign ticket or like device will be displayedby the operation of the mechanism in 'rin ing up the last fare, which ticket, sign, oraot er device will entitle the passenger whosefare has just been rung up to an award ofsoine character, such as a ticket or a number of tickets, or a free pass on the road. The interval between the display of the sign ticket or. other device is made variable so that neither the conductor nor the passengerswill know exactly when the ticket displa ing mechanism will display or eject the said ticket or sign, and in this way the at tention of the passengers will be constantly directed to the'fare register, and their close observatioirwill actg'as a deterrent to any fraudulent intentions on the part of the conductor.

' The invention consists in the features, combination and arrangen'ient of iaris hereinafter described and particularly pointed out inthe claims.

In the 'accoin'panyin r drawiiigs, -ligure l is a perspective view 0 a fare register having my improvements embodied therein. Fig 2- is an'elevation with the casing removed. Fig. 3 is an elevation taken from the opposite side of the machine iroiirthat shown in Fig. 2

Fig.' 4 is an elevations; certain of the inech anism of the fare register, parts however being omitted.

shaft 10 of the main ratchet wheel 6 the 5fis' a'plan view oi the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 19, 1906. Serial No. 3%,123.

Patented Aug. 11, 1908.

stituting' my improvement. I Fig. 6 is iii-:VlGW ofthe interchangeable wheel, whereby the interval between the displaying of the sign ()1 ticket may bevaried or changed as theotficersof the road may determine. Fig. ms a .view similar to Fig. 3 but showing a modilis cation.

Fi s. 8, 9 and 10 are detail views showing a etailed group of elements in'dif i ferent positions. 3

The general form, construction and arrangement of the main portion of thefare rcgistermay be any of those well known. The connection from the cord or rock'sh'al'tf extending along the car is made witlr the register at the point, i, and the movement is communicated-to the-main part'ol the regis tcr through a lever 2, a link 3, a slide bar- 4, and a pawl and ratchet 5 --6. ash "fares" Will be registered through a supplci'ncntijl slide 7 and tickets through asupplemental slide 8, these slides being operated from an extension 9 of the main slide 1. .FXOIH the movement is communicated to the main parts of the register which is shown generally Wheels being indicated at 11---12 and My attachment comprises generally a pair oi printing rolls 14-15, Fig. 5, between which pass a strip or tape 16, from a roll 17, the said ticket printing and ejecting inechanism, coii-; 55

soin Fig. 2, some of the power transmitting strip passing out from the machine tl rough a guide 18 of elongated form a lafited to?" edges 19, it being the purpose to have a 001i:

closely confine the strip; the said giiii e beiiig formed at its discharge end with be'veledf ductor tear oil the portion of the strip or ta'pe which. has been projected beyond the said guides 18.

Motion is communicated to the wheels]? I:

14--15 from a beveled gear 20 on the shaft 21; said beveled gear deriving its ii otioii l from the train ol' 'notion transmitting wjheels. of the register and communicat ng its motion.

to the pinion' 22 on a'shal't 23, which shaft has thereon .a gear wheel 24. This wheel meshes with a gear wheel 25. on a shaft. 26 and thisin turn meshes with the gear wheel 27 on the shaft 28, which shaft extends upwardly and carries the printing roll 15, i and the gear 27 of this roll s geared to the roll 14 through the toothed whcel lZi) indicated dotted lines in Fig. 5. i provide also an alarm consisting of a bell 3U suitably i on the shaft 21.

'gaged at 56, Fig. 9, by the supported by a bracket 31, the hammer 32 of sai bell being arranged to be 0 erated by the pins or projections 33 of a gisk 34 ar- 1 ranged on the shaft of the gear wheel 25, so that each time the tape or ticket strip is fed 1 to eject or feed a portion of the said strip outside the casing the alarm will be sounded and i the attention of the passengers will therefore I be more fully directed to the fare register. The printing. rolls are supplied with ink through rollers 35. rolls in the present embodiment of my invention also asthe feed rolls.

I provide means whereby the register will be locked each time that one of the tickets, signs or other devices are displayed by pro-v jecting the same from the casing of the machine, and for this purpose associate wit-h the train of mechanism leading to the ejcct ing means above described, a toothed wheel l 36, which in the present instanceI arrange This wheel has a series of teeth or cam surfaces 37, its general form be ing that of a ratchet wheel and it is designed to operate a lever 37 pivoted at 38 and under the tension of a spring 3%), teiiding'con stantly to force the arm 40" or'said lever against theratdhet wheel.

Normally, the end of the arm -l() ot' the lever rests in its lowermost position in the tooth of the ratihet or cam wheel, as indif ca'ted in Fi 9'.

at 42 to the frame and is under tension of a spring 43. The lower end of this lever is connected with a supplemental lever 44 pivl oted at 45 to the frame and pivotally com I nected at its. lowerend at 46 to a slide -17, l which is slotted at 48 and guided on pins 49 fixed. to theframe This slide carries a i tinger'50 ada ted to engage a proiection 5l of a locking etent 52 pivoted to the frame at 53 and havin its tooth 54 adapted to engage a ratchet w ieel 55 on the main shaft 10 of the main portion of the register. The tendency of the spring 43 acting on the lever 41 is constantly to force the slide 47 towardsthe left and cause the detent 52 to engage, and lock the ratchet wheel 55, and conse: quently the main portion of the register against action, but this tendency is resisted} ordinarily by the lever 37 above described which presents its end in position to be en-, end of the lever 41. The parts remain in this position at which time the locking detent 52 is out of action until the sign, ticket, rebate or other a device is displayed or ejected from the machine, at which time the. pinion 20 is moved,

as above described, and the cam wheel 37 moving with it in the direction of the arrow, I Fig. 3, causes by the action of its cam shaped l tooth on the arm 40, the lifting of the levei' 37 to the position shown in Figs. 3and 3 so I that the end of the lever 41 is no longer deil l utilize .the printing' the next fare may pulls upon the This lever 37 controls the l- .act-ion of a coking-lever 41 which is pivoted l 8 and this through the ever 44 and slide 47 will throw the locking detent into action and thus lock the machine. The conductor under these conditions Wlll now have to. go to the fare register in order to un-i lock the machine and he will atthe same time tear off or take out from the machine the ticket, rebate, or other device which has been rendered accessible by the ringing up of the last fare and he will present this to the passenger whose fare has just been rung up. In order to unlock the mechanism so that be rung up the conductor knob or button 57, which through its rod 57 will retract the lever 41 at its upper end and withdraw the locking detent 52 from engagement with the ratchet 55, and at the same time the lever 37 will drop into the position as shown in Fig. 9 so as to hold the lever 41 in its retracted position ready for the next operation.

The device which is displayed oricndei'ed accessible at irregular intervals by the ringing up of the fares maybe a' ticket, an order ordisk 58 suitably connected with a part of the gearing and designedlo be rotated'at the time the sign or ticket is displayed or e ected so as to display a suitable advertisement.

This drum may consist simply of an exten-if.

sion'ol the alarm disk or drum 34 and any suitable number of advertisements may be placed thereon. Instead of this torin'of advertisement I may employ an clon ated drum or cylinder as shown at 59 in Fig. 7,

this being connectml bygcars (it), 6] to the train oi" mechanism above described.

' do not wish to limit myself to the details of construction, arrangement or operation of the parts, as these may be varied without de )arting from the spirit of my invention.

may vary the interval between the operations of the ticket or sign display mechanism by having an interchangeable wheel, such for instance as that shown in Fig. 6. This wheel is provided with teeth adapted to mesh with teeth 2O on a wheel connected with the beveled gear 20. The interchangeable wheel is adapted to be fixed in place by means oftwo pins which will engage the openings-6 in the said wheel, these ins being arranged on anotherwheel or disli 13 shown in Fi 3. The interchangeable whee'l maybe helil in posi tion by an arin13 ivoted to the frame at 13 and adapted to e swung down in order to place or remove .the interchangeable disk theyarm 13 may babel will be operated, position,

Y of my invention is or wheel. When in its'uppermost position by a pin'or'set screw 13". a J

One important result flowing from the use that the conductor will be inducedrto register as soon as they are collected, instead of, as is frequently done now, collecting a large the fares separately and i for oper her being individually interchangeable withso out dismantling the apparatus, substantially as described. a

5, In combination with a fare register, means for displaying an award, connections locking means same when the award is made consisting of a,-

number of fares before ringi" any of them cam or toothed wheel, the lever operated up. Of course the condnetergees not know at what moment the award delivering device and the register locked in and in order that he ma the proper party the award it wi 1 be necessary for him to register each fare-separately instead of collecting a large number before registering. Furthermore, the locking of the register; when the award is ejected. or dis': that a specific or definite o played requires eratlon ormani ulationof-the apparatus e performed by, t proceed with the re Istration of fares and the iability ofthe 100 mg taking place at any moment will force the conductor to ring up the fares separately and to deliver to. the roper 'assej erthe, award before roceedwit thefurther registration of ares.- claim as my invention. 1.- In combination NVith means for displaying means a fare register, an award to a passenger ent of the ispl'aying means operating to positively lock the same when the display means 'has been I operated, substantia y as described. 2, Incombination with a fare register,

' means fpr displaying an award to a passen- I said register me hanism substantially as de- Y scribed.

.- 4. In combin 'means for displayinF played,

, locking pla' e 1 1 inc uding a-member 5 tween the operationjof and lockipg' means may er, and locking means arran edto positively ock the register when sai device is disand means whereby the conductor ma release the lock, substantially as describedQ i 3. In combination with a fare"register, means fordisplaying an award to a passenger, connections anism and the said means for'operating the for the register the connections leading to the display means, and positively, 0 structing the movement of 'tion with a fare register, an award, means for the register when an award is disconnections for o crating the same I ,Ivh re y the interval be- Ysaid awarding means be varied, said memdeliver to,

e conductor be ore he can or the register 1ndepend-- between the register mech- 'neetion between the thereby and connections controlled by the said lever for setting the stantially as described.

is 6: Inco'mbination with the register, means for displaying an award, connections for op eratin the same from the register mechanism, a ocking register against movement and means for operating the same consistin of the toothed wheel,-'the' lever eperatedt ereby, a second aever to be locked out of position by the first ever, ating the locking pawl, substantially as de scribed. f

7. In combination with fare register mechr anism, means for ejecting a ticket, and arconregister mechanism and the ejecting means to operatethe latter ,at

intervals in respect to the operations ofthe register mechan1sm, s a1d connection includingan interchangeable member to vary the intervals between the operations of the ejecte0 ing means, substantially as described.

8.- In combination with a re ister, printing rolls arranged to eject an awar and print, the same, connections for operating said printing rolls at intervals, which the said connections lead to the printing rolls, and locking means for the register o erating to-positively lock the 'same when tie rollers have been 0 'erated to eject an award, substantially as escribed; a

9. In combination with registering mechanism, means for displaying an award, cone award dis laymg nections for operating t means and 100 ing means with a-toot whee and detent for controlling the same, substan- 105 tially as described.

10.111} combination withfare re istering mechanism, award displaying mec flIllSl'Xif. lockmgmeans operating when the award is locking means. j In testimony whereof, I 'afiix' my slgnature in presence of two witnesses. a

ating the same from the fare register,

and means for operating the locking means, subpawl for positively locking the 75,

said second'lev'er when released oper register mechanism from displayed and a toothed wheelcontrolling sa'i 

